Bob Colacello visited Candy Darling in hospital soon after
she was admitted and again on October 2, 1973:

"She was spitting up phlegm when I arrived. I noticed
today how white she was. Ghostly. Candy called for a nurse and as soon as
she arrived I left. Candy said, 'Tell Andy to call me. And no more presents.
I don't need presents.' It was the first time she didn't put up a good front.The
next morning, I called Andy, and told him how badly Candy was doing and
that she wanted him to call her.

'Oh I can't Bob. I just can't . What's wrong with Candy,
anyway? I mean, do you think she really has cancer or something?... said
Andy. And then he found an excuse to get off the phone... It wasn't that
he didn't care. He just couldn't cope." (BC189)

When Bob called Candy's mother, he is told by her that there
wasn't much hope. Although the doctors had not told Candy what her condition
was, they had told her mother that Candy had leukemia and a malignant tumour
in her stomach.

Bob told Andy about Candy's condition and he was surprised
at Warhol's reaction: "For the first and only time in the seventeen years
I knew him, I saw him cry." (BC189)